It’s Tuesday night and I’m back at work after an amazing two weeks With @SwedCar9592. He left at 3.30 am on Sunday night/Monday morning and I can’t describe how sad I am to see him go and how much I miss him already. It’s been truly wonderful and I can’t wait to see him again after he’s moved into his flat in Stockholm and settled into his year abroad.

After our brief visit to the Fisherman’s Village of Nyksund we packed our bags and went camping in a place called Bleik in the municipality of Andøy. To get to Bleik we first had to take the bus from Sortland to Andenes then wait around for a while before jumping on a local bus to Bleik. It says something about how small the place is that only the two of us and a couple from Belgium were on the bus, all four of us going to the same camping site. Bleik is a village along the National Tourist Route Andøy and is located along one of Norway’s longest white sand beaches (there are currently three beaches all trying to claim that title, but no official measurments have ever been done). By the time we made it to Midnattsol Camping, which was to be our home for the next two days, the sun was already setting and after putting up our tent and eating we caught the cloudy sunset 🙂

Ready to set off!

Jelly Fish

Evening Mood

Happy days!

The sun has already set

Beach

beeeeeeach

yessss

Looking very put together before leaving. It didnt last long haha x

After a nice long lie in in a tent we woke up to a beautiful day. I finished reading my book (Jane Eyre = it was brilliant, as one could expect), we played cards, discussed topics of no importance, laughed and lounged in our tents. With no internet to speak of and no laptops we did what campers are supposed to do and enjoyed some offline time. Okay, so he enjoyed some offline time. For me it felt like I was cut off from the world and my inability to check Facebook every 15 minutes slowly drove me mad. We went for a walk along the beach after lunch and stopped several places along the way to enjoy the sun that graced us with her presence occasionally. On one of the stops we ended up building dams in the sand for a good hour, trying to block a little stream of water for no apparent reason other than that playing in the sand is fun 😛 Our day in Bleik was full of moments and views I will never forget. The freedom feeling was overwhelming. It didn’t hurt that we watched the sunset from the beach that night. It was clear and colourful and spectacular, contrasting the stormy feeling of the sunset from the night before, but still taking my breath away.

One of many lighthouses like this scattered along the Norwegian coast

Sunset over Bleik beach

Reflection of PhotographyCat in SwedCar9592s shades.

Wild sunset light.

During the night our tent almost blew away with us in it due to Atlantic wind and we didn’t sleep much, but in the morning we dragged ourselves down to Bleik harbour to participate in what turned out to be a great experience. A couple of weeks before I had booked us in on a puffin safari with (*cough*) Puffin Safariand they took us out to a bird island (and nature reserve) where we got to see puffin, sea eagle, black cormorants and a host of other sea birds that I don’t remember the name of but do remember were feisty. My phone camera couldn’t catch the birds properly and after a few failed attempt I gave up watching them through the lens and sat down to take it all in with no screen between me and this untouched piece of nature. The smaller sea birds dove and cawed and fought over fish while the eagles soared high above, watching over their kingdom. The birds were free and fabulous, thriving in their non-human habitat. It was a wonderful, albeit a little short, meeting with mother nature.

I’ll leave you today with this little clip I posted on instagram while in Bleik. There are few things as peaceful and relaxing as the sights and sounds of waves breaking on the shore. Goodnight! Xxx